Black Quotes

I don't do drugs. Because my grandmother raised me. I think like an old, black, Southern woman. If I'd have done coke, I'd probably be cooking pancakes.

Being black, I'm involved in the reparations movement. It's focused toward the African-American audience. We could begin to heal.

I'm tired of having to consult a group of old white guys about my black girl craft. They don't even know what they're listening for or to.

Give me a black man, a white woman, a giraffe, a zebra anything but another white man! That last one f***ed up my roof!

Little more black, little more blue. And we'll just put that in using little crisscross strokes or - or little X's, whatever you want to call them. Whatever.

Remember her hair in the morning before it was pinned, black, rampant, savage with loveliness. As if she slept in perpetual storm.

The titanic effort that has brought liberation to South Africa, and ensured the total liberation of Africa, constitutes an act of redemption for the black people of the world.

My most recent purchase was a black lace corset.

I think it's important to represent black women and our natural hair. Not wearing a weave is totally beautiful and acceptable.

The record companies really do conspire against the artists. Especially the black artists

You didn't think of angels as white or black. They were angels.

We send young white boys to the Army. We're sending young black boys to the prisons.

The black man in America is the same as the Jews were in bondage under Pharaoh. We are strangers in a land that is not ours. We are rejected by this type of modern Pharaoh or pharohnic society.

It's no accident that most of the great black spokespersons and leaders understood the centrality of self-affirmation, self-respect and self-love.

And priests in black gowns were walking their rounds and binding with briars my joys and desires. (from 'The Garden of Love')

We are here to work side-by-side with this "black" man in trying to bring liberation to all our people!

Every year everything I have ever learned in my lifetime leads back to this: the fires and the black river of loss whose other side is salvation

Sarah Palin and Michele Bachmann represent an existential threat to the Democratic Party the way that twenty years ago Clarence Thomas as a black man represented to liberals and the Democratic Party.

Slavery didnt break up the black families as much as liberal welfare rules.

No one who's white thinks he's innocent. No one who's black thinks he's guilty.

You know I'm not hung up on this liberating myself from the "black" man - I'm not going to try that thing.

There's a black rose growing in your garden.

To change history is very slow. The first two times I came to the States - black people didn't have the right to vote.

The American Race is marked by a brown complexion; long, black, lank hair; and deficient beard.

I never thought we'd ever have a black president. President Obama has done such a tremendous job He just has been unable to get what he needs to be moved at the level it should be moved.

When you look at Darling and the Oscars, it has to be luck. It was a black and white film and it was the last time that there was a black and white Oscar.

Just call me black, if you want to call me anything.

Between the black of yesterday and the white of tomorrow is the great gray of today.

I make black and white prints because I want to go back to the beginning.

I was black growing up in an all-white neighborhood, so I felt like I just didn't fit in. Like I wasn't as good as everybody else, or as smart, or whatever.

Black-Scholes works for short-term options, but if it's a long-term option and you think you know something [about the underlying asset], it's insane to use Black-Scholes.

There is no twilight zone of honesty in business. A thing is right or it's wrong. It's black or it's white.

Robert Kennedy identified with people, not data, or institutions, or theories. Poverty was a specific black face for him, not a manila folder full of statistics.

I couldn't imagine anything more horrifying than three middle aged men trying to pretend that 'Black Dog' is still significant. It's inappropriate.

I've pretty much learned I can let that [being black] hinder me if I want to ... or I can fight for different kinds of roles.

Nothing is as it seems. Black can appear white when the light is blinding but white loses all luster at the faintest sign of darkness.

Black people drink lots of beer. However, you won't see us skiing down a mountain for one, or see us diving for Frisbees on concrete for one.

Let’s hope she’s like the others, who look only at the surface. Let’s hope she’d never think that a girl with black-velvet eyes and cut-glass cheekbones could be a witch.

If we have an honest discussion on whether the war on poverty should be fought with welfare or with economic growth in the private sector, Democrats will lose black votes.

With a black president, I can relax... I can dance in public... I can buy a whole watermelon now.

Let all Black Poets die as trumpets, And be buried in the dust of marching feet.

Will Herman Cain become the first black President that I acknowledge? I call him a dark horse because he's an unlikely candidate who surged forward, and not because he's a horse.

Every refugee finds his American dream on the backs of the nightmare of Black suffering in America.

The silence is death. It comes each day with its shock to sit on my shoulder, a white bird, and peck at the black eyes and the vibrating red muscle of my mouth.

Michael Jackson was a poor black boy who grew up to be a rich white woman

I'm a child myself, in the sense that I'm still looking. Children are fascinated by black holes and ask me questions. I find they soon get the idea if it is explained in nontechnical language.

It wasn't about Larry Holmes, if I would have fought a brother I wouldn't have gotten the money I got. Give me 10 black guys and I make eight dollars. Give me Gerry Cooney and I make $10 million.

It's hard being black. You ever been black? I was black once - when I was poor.

When you're black, you have to deal with so much crap in your life from other black people. It's a dirty, dark secret; I'm glad it's coming out.

My basics are black, white, or neutral, and I'll wear a ton of jewelry or carry a brightly colored bag.